We're looking for Senior Consultant with expertise in Supply Chain - Procurement
to join the group of our Business Consulting Team
to work with business clients and project teams to support on delivering client engagements on SCO and also building a strong pipeline by developing technical proposals collaborating with MENA stakeholders.
Key responsibilities
- As a Senior Consultant, you will be part of a team of professionals with extensive Supply Chain consulting and industry experience.
- Typical role representation would include supporting on client engagements related to Supply Chain consulting. Drawing on your knowledge and functional acumen, you will also be involved in creating innovative insights for clients, suggesting methods and practices to optimise their SCO processes, improving operations and creating new sources of value, and contribution to thought leadership.
- You are also expected to contribute in stakeholder meetings and build winning technical proposals in response to the Tender and/or Requests for Proposal (RFPs) from business clients.
- An important part of your role will be to actively perform research, establish, maintain and strengthen internal and external relationships. This job responsibility will require you to travel and be on client site in MENA region particularly Middle East.
Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to
- Work on client engagements focused on procurement transformation, target operating models, and operational optimization/re-engineering.
- Understand client s business objectives, procurement challenges and opportunities for improvement
- Conduct assessments of client s procurement functions to identify areas of optimization/automation/cost reduction
- Develop implementation roadmaps aligned with client s business needs and industry best practices.
- Leverage AI and digital tools to deliver advanced analytics, predictive insights, and automation for procurement processes.
- Support procurement transformation initiatives including process redesign and technology implementation support
- Provide data-driven insights using advanced analytics and business intelligence tools to support decision making and drive continuous improvement in procurement operations
- Ensure consistency in delivering high quality work products exceeding the client expectations and meeting delivery timelines
- Work closely with key stakeholders and lead, design and develop winning technical proposals with respect to the tender floated or RFPs received from business clients.
- Build, maintain and strengthen working relationships with business stakeholders at appropriate levels and clients
- Continually enhance your technical and consulting skills on supply chain, there by contributing to the development of your own and teams technical acumen
- Liaise with internal teams and field of play teams to help identify opportunities on SCO and actively contribute to business development activities
- Develop and groom team members for succession planning, as needed
Skills and attributes for success
- Good understanding of end-to-end supply chain process covering one or more of the following areas sourcing, purchasing, contract life cycle management, supplier management, logistics, order management, warehousing
- Knowledge of Category Management, and Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) frameworks
- Understanding and application of AI-driven procurement solutions
- Strong ability to research and write technical proposal content in MS PowerPoint
- Business process re-engineering and optimization in diverse industry like Oil Gas, B2B, Real estate construction, Healthcare, Consumer Goods retail, Manufacturing will be valuable for the role
- Keen understanding of any of the ERP applications on the domain area
- Ability to translate technical requirements into effective supply chain solutions
- Good interpersonal skills with ability to build rapport with all stakeholders
- Excellent communication skills (both oral and written)
To qualify for the role, you must have
- 4-8 years of work experience in various Supply Chain projects with experience in pre-sales operations. Consulting experience would be an added advantage
- BE/B-Tech/MBA/higher degrees in operations
- Exposure to writing technical proposals in response to RFP / Tender
- Knowledge of Supply chain domain including but not limited to operating model design, organisation restructuring, feasibility study, operational efficiency improvement, process transformation, re-engineering, optimization and analytics (supplier segmentation, spend analytics, benchmarking).
- Addon experience in Procurement / Supplier / 3rd party audits
- Strong in Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Aris, Power Bi, Tableau, etc
- Exposure to ERP systems and tools like SAP, Oracle, Ariba, Coupa, LLamasoft, Anaplan, etc
- Willing to travel to the Middle East and work on Sunday to Thursday working week and support MENA timings (11AM - 8.30 PM), as preferred (supporting Middle East Clients)
Ideally, you'll also have
- Project management skills
- Customer handling, Stakeholder management, Report writing, Strong interpersonal communication skills and experience in usage of analytical tools/ representations
- Insights into latest trends of supply chain management, including leading procurement practices, sustainability, digitalization and use of AI to predict and respond to market changes
- Certification in Procurement (CIPS, CPSM, CSCP, CPP) will be an added/preferredadvantage
- Certification in ISO, Lean, Six sigma, TQM, KAIZEN will be an added/preferred advantage
- A Team of people with commercial acumen, technical experience and enthusiasm to learn new things in this fast-moving environment
- An opportunity to be a part of market-leading, multi-disciplinary team of business consultant professionals, in the integrated global business worldwide
- Individuals with a knack of utilising tools, who can bring strategic perspective to supply chain challenges and drive digital transformation initiatives
- Opportunities to work with EY Business Consulting practices regionally/globally with leading businesses across a range of industries
